Seminars, Research Projects & Academic Programs
2025–2028
Research project: The Concept of Sharīʿa: Epistemologies, Paradigms, and Hermeneutics, in collaboration with the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo), the University of Lorraine, Cefrepa (French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula), the University of Jordan, the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies (RIIFS) in Amman, and An-Najah University (Nablus), with the support of the French Consulate in Jerusalem and the French Embassy in Jordan. Coordinated by Mehdi Berriah (Ifpo) and Hassan Chahdi (University of Lorraine).
Since 2024
Co-organizer (with Makram Abbès director of the French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula – Cefrepa/Kuwait) of the seminar Renewing Religious Thought in Contemporary Islam. Partner institutions: French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo) and Cefrepa (Kuwait)
Coordinator of the “Résidences islamologiques” program at the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo)
- https://www.ifporient.org/appel-a-projets-residences-islamologiques-de-lifpo-2025
- https://www.ifporient.org/residences-islamologiques-2024
Since 2023
Coordinator of Axis 2 “States, Power and Societies in the Arab and Muslim East” within Cefrepa’s scientific program
Coordinator of Cross-cutting Axis 7 “Renewing Religious Thought in Contemporary Islam” within Cefrepa’s scientific program
2023–2025
Principal Investigator of the project Jihad in the Middle Ages: Texts, Contexts, and Practices (7th–15th centuries), selected as part of the 2022–2023 “Islam, Religion and Society” call for projects by the French Ministry of the Interior (Bureau central des Cultes)
2020–2023
Contributor to the SHARIAsource project of the Program on Islamic Law at Harvard Law School, led by Professor Intisar Rabb (Harvard University)
2021–2022
Co-organizer of the international seminar Eschatological Imaginaries in Islam: Comparative Historical Perspectives (University of Lorraine, Metz), in collaboration with Hassan Bouali
2020–2021
Principal Investigator of the project The Taymiyyan Corpus on Jihad: Reception, Decontextualization, and Instrumentalization by Contemporary Jihadist Movements, selected as part of the 2020–2021 “Islam, Religion and Society” call for projects (French Ministry of the Interior – Bureau central des Cultes)
2017–2021
Member of the international research program War in the Medieval Near East (11th–16th C.): Transmission of Knowledge, Social Practices and Sensitive Approaches, co-directed by Mathieu Eychenne (Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn), Ahmed el-Shoky (Ain Shams University and Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo), and Abbès Zouache (CNRS/Lyon); hosted by Ifpo and Ifao
2013–2017
Member of the international program War, Culture and Society in the Medieval Near East (969–1517), co-directed by Mathieu Eychenne (Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn), Stéphane Pradines (Aga Khan University, London), and Abbès Zouache (CNRS/Lyon); hosted by Ifpo and Ifao
2014–2017
Member of the international research project The Language of Peace, co-directed by Michele Bernardini (University of Naples) and Sylvie Denoix (CNRS, UMR 8167)